Eugenio Garin (May 9, 1909 – December 29, 2004) was an Italian philosopher and Renaissance historian. He was recognised as an authority on the cultural history of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...

. Born at

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, Garin studied philosophy at the

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, graduating in 1929, and after a period as professor of philosophy at the ''liceo scientifico Stanislao Cannizzaro'' in Palermo and the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 alon ...

, Garin began teaching at his alma mater in 1949 until 1974, then moving to the

Scuola Normale di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

until his retirement in 1984. The Graduate School of Historical Studies at San Marino was inaugurated with a public lecture by Eugenio Garin on 30 September 1989. Garin was an elected member of both the

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and the

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. He also was the editor of the journals ''Rinascimento'' and ''Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana''.

Works

* ''Giovanni Pico della Mirandola'' (1937) * ''Il Rinascimento italiano'' (1941) *''Storia della filosofia italiana'' (1947, 1966, 1978); English translation: ''History of Italian Philosophy''. (Amsterdam/New York, 2008) *''L'Umanesimo italiano'' (1952); English translation: ''Italian humanism; philosophy and civic life in the Renaissance'' (New York, 1965) *''Medioevo e rinascimento'' (1954) *''Cronache di filosofia italiana (1900-1943)'' (1955) *''L'educazione in Europa 1400-1600'' (1957) *''La filosofia come sapere storico'' (1959) *''La cultura italiana tra Ottocento e Novecento'' (1962) *''Scienza e vita civile nel Rinascimento italiano'' (1965); English translation: ''Science and civic life in the Italian renaissance'' (New York, 1969) *''Ritratti di umanisti'' (Firenze: Sansoni 1967) *''Dal Rinascimento all'Illuminismo'', (1970) *''Intellettuali italiani del XX secolo'', (1974) *''Rinascite e rivoluzioni'' (1975) *''Lo zodiaco della vita'', (1976); English translation: ''Astrology in the Renaissance: the zodiac of life'' (London, 1983) *''Filosofia e scienze nel Novecento'', (1978) *''Tra due secoli'' (1983) *''Ermetismo del Rinascimento'' (1988) *''Umanisti artisti scienziati. Studi sul Rinascimento italiano'' (1989) *''Gli editori italiani tra Ottocento e Novecento'' (1991)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garin, Eugenio 1909 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Italian philosophers People from Rieti 20th-century Italian historians Academic staff of the University of Cagliari University of Florence alumni Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Historians of the Renaissance Members of the American Philosophical Society